Re: [exim] LMTP delivery failure

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Author: Viktor Dukhovni
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] LMTP delivery failure
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 08:21:08PM +0000, Jeremy Harris wrote:

> On 20/01/15 17:44, Ian Eiloart wrote:
> > The exception would be if you?re using cutthrough delivery, which is available only when there is a single recipient.
>
> Just committed this very day in master (i.e. not yet in a released
> version): multi-recipient cutthrough. Subject to all recipients
> being deliverable on one interface, to one host/port.
>
> However, there might be unpleasant interactions with LMTP. It's
> not been tried (as far as I know), so there probably are.


If the nexthop transport is LMTP, it is unsafe to attempt to do
cut-through, because individual recipients might be rejected after
"." due to quota or similar problems.

How do you deal with a nexthop SMTP relay that rejects a non-empty
proper subset of the recipients (replies to RCPT TO).

-- 
    Viktor.